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Global Cuisine: How Krystal Culinary Institute Embraces International Flavors

Introduction

We are proud to offer culinary arts courses at the Krystal Culinary Institute of Kolkata  that highlight the delicious range of international cuisine. Our mission is to give students an advantage for success in the rapid culinary arts courses in Kolkata by teaching them the methods and cultural background of each dish they serve, all the while developing an appreciation of global culinary traditions.

With our courses, leading culinary schools from all over the world come together to form a vibrant hub of global culinary traditions: Krystal Culinary Institute. We think that exposing new chefs to a variety of cuisines���from Europe's delicate flavors to Asia's spicy dishes—is essential, which is why our courses cover them all in depth. As a result, our students get practical experience utilizing a variety of ingredients, cooking techniques, and cultural settings.

Asian Cooking: Finding the Right Balance

The harmonic fusion of Asian cuisine's flavors and preparation methods is the main topic of our culinary arts courses in Kolkata, which our students study in depth. Students sample a variety of cuisines, including sushi, from Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Indian restaurants. -making methods from Thailand or Japan or complex preparation methods to infuse dishes with various flavors and scents from their curries; Indian spices or Japanese methods that bring out distinct flavor combinations in every meal they cook! Through immersion in a wide range of culinary techniques, our students can acquire well-rounded skill sets that enable them to produce unique, tasty dishes on their own!

European Cooking: Combining Innovation and Tradition

European cuisine is the focal point of our educational center, honoring its rich past as well as its innovative possibilities. With a focus on both mastering traditional techniques and encouraging creativity and innovation to craft timeless culinary masterpieces that combine ancient and contemporary traditions, we study the classic techniques of French cuisine, the vibrant flavors of Italian dishes, Germany's robust culinary traditions, and lively tapas from Spain.

Latin American Food: A Delectable Tapestry

There's something delicious for every taste in the rich and diverse flavor palette of Latin American food. Our classes take students on a culinary tour of Mexico, Brazil, Peru, and Argentina, teaching them how to make classic dishes like tacos, feijoada, ceviche, and empanadas while also learning about their cultural and historical origins. This in-depth examination improves their capacity to properly appreciate the many culinary traditions of Latin America.

Aromatic and delicious Middle Eastern cuisine

The cuisines of Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, and Morocco are all included in our Middle Eastern culinary curriculum. As they master the preparation and application of particular spice mixes when making classic foods like hummus, kebabs, pilafs, and tagines, they develop an appreciation for these special blends. Our pupils' culinary repertoires are given an unusual edge by learning Middle Eastern delicacies.

Culinary History and Cultural Context

Cultural immersion and historical knowledge are highly valued components of culinary instruction at Krystal Culinary Institute. In addition to learning how to prepare various foods, our students research their extensive cultural backgrounds. Our graduates are guaranteed to be expert cooks and cultural ambassadors who can educate the public about the origins of each dish they produce, thanks to our all-encompassing approach.

Modern Facilities and Skilled Faculty 

Our college has modern facilities that are intended to provide the best possible learning environment for a cooking course in Kolkata. Students have access to state-of-the-art resources since our kitchens are furnished with cutting-edge appliances and equipment. Additionally, a number of seasoned chefs and culinary professionals teach in our classes, bringing their extensive industry knowledge to bear. Through their important guidance, students are able to build upon and fulfill their dreams of becoming chefs.

Praxis and practical experience in the world

Our educational philosophy is centered on practical learning. In order to ensure that our graduates are sufficiently equipped to contend successfully in the fiercely competitive culinary sector, students engage in practical cooking lessons, workshops, internships, and culinary competitions.

Through agreements with some of the best hotels and restaurants in the globe, Krystal Culinary Institute is able to offer its students special internship opportunities at these establishments. These internships will help students develop their professional networks, which will help them in their future jobs, in addition to enhancing their practical expertise.

Cooking Contests

A key component of our program is culinary competition participation, which allows students to demonstrate their originality, technical proficiency, and capacity for work under pressure. In addition to gaining respect and confidence from their peers, competing at both the national and international levels can help students land fulfilling jobs in the culinary industry.

Conclusion

The goal of the Krystal Culinary Institute is to develop in-depth knowledge of world cuisine and train the next generation of chefs. We provide our students with a complete and enriching culinary education that makes them stand out by embracing worldwide cuisines and traditions. Our recent graduates are prepared to leave their mark in the culinary institute in Kolkata, regardless of whether they decide to specialize in a certain dish or develop into dynamic cooks with a worldwide outlook.

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Ancient Sites of Turkey — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide

https://lifesporttravel.com/?p=1589 Ancient Sites of Turkey — Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide - https://lifesporttravel.com/?p=1589 The prehistoric caves of Kaymaklı and Zelve, Greco-Roman Ephesus, and Roman Hierapolis and Aphrodisias are among Turkey’s most fascinating sites. #ricksteves #ricksteveseurope #turkey Visit for more information about this destination and other destinations in Europe. Check out more Rick Steves’ Europe travel resources: “Rick Steves’ Europe” public television series: “Travel with Rick Steves” public radio program: European Tours: Guidebooks: Travel Gear: Trip Consulting: Travel Classes: Rick Steves Audio Europe App: Rick Steves, America’s most respected authority on European travel, writes European travel guidebooks, and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio. People have carved communities into These formations for thousands of years While many of these evocative caves are Abandoned many cave settlements have Grown into thriving towns whose main Industry is clearly tourism well For extra guidance we're joined by my Friend and fellow tour guide Lali sermon Iran For years lollies LED our bus tour Groups around turkey and for this Itinerary she's joining us While mainly Muslim today Anatolia was Christian for five centuries before Islam even arrived early Christians had To take shelter they had to hide from The ancient Roman persecutions they had To hide from the 7th Century Arab Invasions and the landscape around here Provided the perfect Hideout it really Does And to actually see what Lolly's talking About we're descending into kaimakley a Completely underground city dug out of The Rock Much of kaimakley was originally dug in Hittite times over a thousand years Before Christ Later this underground World provided an Almost ready-made Refuge Through the centuries when invading Armies passed through the area entire Communities lived down here for months At a stretch in ancient times Christians Were persecuted and actually did go Literally Underground [Music] Foreign This is a remarkable example of their Determination to live free and true to Their faith imagine 300 A.D hiding out Down here with your family in fact Hiding out down here with your entire Community and people up there hunting You down Tourists are free to explore the Networks of streets and plazas You'll find kitchens Cramped Living Spaces Massive roll away the stone doors And ingenious ventilation shafts to Bring fresh air to the many underground Levels Could have made these tunnels bigger but That was part of the plan Certainly made And to conserve oxygen Candlelight was Kept to a minimum it must have been a Long dark wait But for us it's back to fresh air and Sunshine we are on our way again [Music] As time went on sprawling communities Still digging caves for homes inhabited Entire valleys like Selva [Music] Around the 10th century zelvo was one of Scores of similar cave communities here In Cappadocia Cleverly they run a livelihood out of This parched land Caves served as ancient Condominiums With holes dug out as cooking pits in Addition to Living Spaces they were also Equipped with natural pantries cubby Holes carved out for storage of food and Wine Big animal powered Stone Wheels ground Grain Ingeniously used whatever nature offered Them Pigeon droppings were collected Providing valuable fertilizer to assure A good harvest in the valley below The ancient home of the Ephesians is one Of the world's greatest classical sites The west coast of what we now call Turkey was once a cultural Heartland of Ancient Greece Ephesus blossomed as a Greek city in About the 4th Century BC It was later consumed by the expanding Roman Empire and eventually became a Major Roman City While the site is vast only about 15 Percent this Greco-Roman Metropolis has Been excavated But as Rome fell so did Ephesus once a Thriving Seaport the city was sacked by Barbarians Eventually its busy ports silted up and It was abandoned a thousand years of Silt left it stranded three miles Inland From the Aegean Coast [Music] The library the third largest of the Roman Empire is a highlight Assad is striking Statues of women celebrating the virtues Of learning and wisdom inspired the Citizenry The city's Main Street is lined with Buildings Grand even in their ruined State this one known as Hadrian's Temple Was built in the second century Dedicated to Emperor Hadrian its Decorations are full of symbolism To this day archaeologists debate just What it all means For extra guidance we're joined by my Friend Lolly sermon Iran for years Wally's LED our bus tour groups around Turkey and for this itinerary she's Joining us Huge City quarter of a million people This was one of the biggest metropolises Of the Roman period now we're in the Downtown and the main street of the city But the city expanded Beyond this Main Street on both sides so way up to the Mountain actually on both directions way Up to the mountains and housed 250 000 People All the city was planned right Underneath us there was a huge sewer and There were clay pipes at either side of The street taking fresh water to the Baths and The Fountains so they had Aqueducts coming in and powering the Whole city yes [Music] See these were the public toilets Attached to the Roman bats next door Everybody sat next to one another so Public toilets were really public That Terrace houses stretch up from the City's main drag these excavations are Incredibly complex like piecing together An enormous puzzle the fragments are so Delicate the ongoing work is protected Under a roof the Terrace houses give us A particularly intimate look at Ephesian Life two thousand years ago now how many Families would have lived in this Zone Only five just five five families and These were huge houses this must have Been the elite of Ephesus Ultra Ultra Rich not only for ephesus's but Among The Riches of the world lived in these Houses so when you walk through here can You imagine what it would be like to Live at that time sort of it was very Luxurious living in these houses old Houses were arranged around an Atrium so They had a courtyard with rooms all Around which were richly decorated with Art on two or three floors Thank you [Music] A standard feature of any Roman city was Its theater to estimate an ancient City's population archaeologists Multiply the capacity of its theater by 10 as this one holds 25 000 they figure The City's population was a quarter Million It was here that the Apostle Paul Planned to give his talk instructing the Ephesians to stop worshiping man-made Gods and here in Ephesus that God was Artemis The local Crafts People produce statues Of Artemis like this it was a big Industry they exported them far and wide When they realized Paul's message would Ruin their businesses they started a Riot imagine this theater filled with Thousands of people all shouting in one Angry voice great is Artemis of the Ephesians for his own safety Paul had to Flee and he ended up giving his message By letter that's why in the Bible we've Got Paul's letter to the Ephesians [Music] In what seems like the middle of nowhere We come to a striking white Hillside This marks the ancient city spa and Necropolis of heropolis in Roman times The rich and frail came here to spend Their last years and to die we Approached today as visitors always have Walking through the evocative tombs Then passing under an imposing Roman Gate where Grand Boulevard leads you to The Mineral Springs Famous since ancient times for its Curative Waters and tranquility Today the ever popular Springs in the Shadow of ancient ruins fill a pool Littered with a dreamy assortment of Ancient Roman columns that sparkle Beneath the crystal clear water A soak here is like bathing in hot Champagne Below the wondrous White Cliffs of Pamukale create a Scenic backdrop for Bathers [Music] The water flowing over the Rocks leaves A calcium residue that whitens and Solidifies creating a Wonderland of Pools and Terraces that along with the Commanding view make an unforgettable Setting Thank you [Music] [Music] Turkey fills the Anatolian Peninsula and Anatolia is peppered with remnants of Civilizations long gone and around here Important sites are constantly being Unearthed Aphrodisius is a relatively recent Excavation The more they dig the more many Archaeologists believe that Anatolia Rather than Mesopotamia further to the East is the Cradle of our civilization While this site goes back much further What we see today is ancient Roman only About 2 000 years old [Music] This ornate Gateway gives us a sense of The impressive City's former grandeur And judging from its Stadium this town Was really into sports this is a proper Stadium one Stadium long that's about Two football fields events like athletic Contests animal fights and Gladiator Sports packed the house Foreign Mike Izzo https://lifesporttravel.com/?p=1589

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Who is Cybele?

Cybele or Artemis was the goddess of fertility in ancient Greek. The Cybele Statue in Ephesus Museum is a small statue in a sarcophagus-like shape with two animals (Stags) next to her feet. Her multi breasts emphasize her fertility and potency of giving birth.

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Take Iran Classic Tour with Letsvisitpersia and see the country through the eyes of a friendly, knowledgeable, and well-experienced local guide.

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A world tour of classic films (pre-1980):

Afghanistan - Like Eagles (1967) no subs

Albania - The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (1953) Eng subs

Algeria - The Winds of the Aures (1967) no subs

Angola - Sambizanga (1972) Eng subs

Argentina - Black Ermine (1953) Eng subs

Armenia - Zare (1926) no subs

Australia - For the Term of His Natural Life (1929) Eng

Austria - The Hands of Orlac (1924) Eng

Azerbaijan - The Cloth Peddler (1945) no subs

Belgium - The Crab w/ the Golden Claws (1947) Eng subs

Brazil - Onde Estás Felicidade (1939) no subs

Bulgaria - Specialist in Everything (1962) no subs

Cambodia - Apsara (1966) no subs

Canada - Back to Gods Country (1919) Eng

Chile - The Lady of Death (1946) no subs

China - Princess Iron Fan (1941) Eng subs

China - Mulan Joins the Army (1939) Eng subs

Columbia - Claws of Gold (1926) no subs

Cuba - The Last Supper (1976) Eng subs

Czechoslovakia - Ecstasy (1933) Eng subs

Denmark - The Abyss (1910) Eng subs

Egypt - Cairo Station (1958) Eng subs

Estonia - Young Eagles (1927) no subs

Finland - The Day the Earth Froze (1959) Eng dub

France - Zou Zou (1934) Eng subs

Georgia - Saba (1929) no subs

Germany - Metropolis (1927) Eng

Greece - Daphnis and Chloe (1931) no subs

Honduras - My Friend Angel (1962) no subs

Hungary - Little Mother (1935) no subs

India - Aah (1953) Eng subs

Indonesia - Pareh (1935) no subs

Iran - The House is Black (1963) Eng subs

Ireland - Knocknagow (1918) Eng

Israel - The Hero’s Wife (1963) no subs

Italy - Fast and Sexy (1958) Eng version

Jamaica - The Harder They Come (1972) Eng

Japan - Dragnet Girl (1933) Eng subs

Kazakhstan - Amangeldy (1939) no subs

Korea, North - My Home Village (1949) no subs

Korea, South - Viva Freedom! (1946) Eng subs

Latvia - Blow, Wind (1973) Eng subs

Lebanon - The Broken Wings (1962) Eng subs

Lithuania- The Girl and the Echo (1964) no subs

Malaysia - Fate’s Hand (1952) no subs

Malaysia - My Son, Sazali (1956) Eng subs

Mexico - Salón México (1949) Eng subs 

Moldova - Lullaby (1959) no subs

Mongolia - Tsogt Taij (1945) Eng subs

Nepal - Maitighar (1966) no subs

Netherlands - Fanfare (1958) Eng subs

New Zealand - 100 Crowded Years (1941) Eng

Niger - Return of an Adventurer (1966) no subs

Nigeria - Fincho (1957) Eng

North Macedonia - Miss Stone (1958) no subs

Norway - Nine Lives (1957) Eng subs

Pakistan - Doo Aansoo (1950) no subs

Paraguay - The Blood and the Seed (1959) no subs

Peru - No Stars in the Jungle (1967) no subs

Philippines - Pearl of the Pasig (1950) Eng subs

Poland - Black Pearl (1934) Eng subs

Portugal -  Aniki-Bóbó (1942) Eng subs

Romania - The Queen’s Flower (1946) no subs

Russia - The Stone Flower (1946) Eng subs

Senegal - Boro, Sarret (1963) Eng subs

Serbia - Karađorđe (1911) Eng subs

Singapore - Love (1948) Eng subs

Slovenia - Don’t Whisper (1957) no subs

South Africa - Come Back, Africa (1959) Eng

Spain - The Electric Hotel (1908) no subs

Sri Lanka - Kapatikama (1966) no subs

Sudan - The Dislocation of Amber (1975) no subs

Suriname - Wan Pipel (1976) Eng subs

Sweden - It Rains on Our Love (1946) Eng subs

Switzerland - Heidi (1952) Eng dub

Syria - The Dupes (1972) Eng subs

Taiwan - Wave (1973) no subs

Tajikistan -  Rustam and Suhrab (1971) no subs

Thailand - King of the White Elephant (1940) Eng

Trinidad and Tobago - Bim (1974) Eng

Tunisia - The Girl from Carthage (1924) no subs

Turkey - The Broken Disc (1959) no subs

Ukraine - Man With a Movie Camera (1929) Eng subs

United Kingdom - It’s Love Again (1936) Eng

United States - Bringing Up Baby (1938) Eng

Uruguay - Souls on the Coast (1923) no subs

Uzbekistan - Delighted by You (1958) no subs

Venezuela - Light in the High Plains (1953) no subs

Vietnam - Together on the Same River (1959) Eng subs

Zimbabwe - Shangani Patrol (1970) Eng

***All these links are watchable as of October 2021. Since this list is for classic films it includes some countries that no longer exist. Not every country is included here because not every country had a film industry or has films available on YouTube. I recommend looking up any film on here that you watch as a lot of them have very interesting backstories. “No subs” means no English subtitles. They may have subtitles in other languages.

Please don’t let a lack of subtitles stop you from trying a movie from another country. Movies, especially silent ones, can be understood and enjoyed regardless of language barriers! <3

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The beautiful 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300 Cabriolet, classic German engineering at it's finest!

The Mercedes-Benz W188 was a luxury sports tourer produced by Mercedes-Benz between 1951 and 1958. The company's most expensive and exclusive automobiles, the elegant, hand-built 300 S (1951-1954) and its successor 300 Sc (1955-1958) were the pinnacle of the Mercedes line of their era.

The Mercedes-Benz Type 300 (chassis codes W186, W188, and W189) were the company's largest and most-prestigious models throughout the 1950s. Analogous to today's S-Class, the Type 300 cars were elegant, powerful, exclusive, and expensive. The 300, 300b, 300c, and 300d touring cars were often referred to as Adenauers after Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. In office from 1949 to 1963, he employed six custom convertible, hardtop, and landaulet versions of this model during his tenure.It was the most expensive luxury car of its day, twice as much as the 300SL and American luxury cars of the day. Equally important, it was the model that returned Mercedes-Benz to its prewar international clientele. Hence this was a car of the rich and famous including the Aga Kahn, the Shah of Iran, King Gustav of Sewden, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gary Cooper, Yul Brenner, Maria Callas, Clark Gable & Bing Crosby.

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Visiting Burj Khalifa for the first time? Here’s what and how to do it?

The Burj Khalifa, which was completed in 2010, is the world's largest structure and building. The overall height is 829.8 metres, with a roof height of 828 metres.

The Burj Khalifa's construction began in 2004 and was finished five years later in 2009. The structure was completed in 2010 as part of a new concept known as downtown Dubai. It will serve as the centrepiece of a vast, mixed-use complex. The edifice set multiple height records, including being named the world's tallest structure. Owings & Merrill, and Adrian Smith of Skidmore, who also designed the Willis Tower and One World Trade Center, designed the Burj Khalifa.

Here are some of the salient features of the world’s tallest building that you shouldn't miss on your Burj Khalifa tour.

The Dubai Fountain:

The Dubai Fountain is a magnificent work of art located directly in front of the Burj Khalifa. It has 6,600 lights and 50 coloured projectors to illuminate it. The area is continually filled with music ranging from classical to modern Arabic and other genres. It is capable of shooting water 150 metres into the air.

Observation deck:

At the time of its opening, the Observation Deck in Burj Khalifa was the world's highest outdoor observation deck. Cloud Top 488 atop the Canton Tower currently holds the record. The electronic telescope, a virtual reality system designed by Montréal's Gsmprjct % that allows travellers to enjoy natural landscapes in real-time, is also located on the observation deck. People can see Iran's coastlines from the top of the skylights when the tide is low and vision is good.

Burj Khalifa Park:

A 27-acre park developed by SWA Group landscape architects surrounds the Burj Khalifa. The park's design was inspired by the Hymenocallis flower, a desert plant, just like the tower. The water field, which includes a series of ponds and water jet fountains, is located in the centre of the property.

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Burj Khalifa’s list of Records:

●     Tallest existing structure

●     Tallest structure ever built

●     Tallest freestanding structure

●     Tallest skyscraper

●     Tallest skyscraper to top of the antenna

●     Building with most floors

●     World’s highest elevator installation

●     World’s longest travel distance elevators

●     Highest vertical concrete pumping

●     World’s tallest structure that includes residential space

●     World’s largest aluminium and glass façade construction

●     World’s highest nightclub

●     World’s highest restaurant

●     World’s highest New Year display of fireworks.

●     The largest sound and light show in the world, staged on a single building.

Things to Do:

From the observation platform, visitors can enjoy a panoramic view of the neighbourhood. Visitors can also choose to buy a Burj Khalifa ticket at the time of booking their Dubai Tour Package, eat their hearts out at some of Dubai's most prestigious eateries. The following are the alternatives available:

 ●     AT. Mosphere

●     Amal

●     Ristorante

●     Hashi

●     Deli

●     Mediterraneo

●     Armani Lounge

●     Candylicious

 In addition to all of these features, the Burj Khalifa is a fantastic residential neighbourhood.

When you are in Dubai, never miss out on the tour to the world of speed - Ferrari World. Book your Dubai Tours inclusive of a Ferrari world tour from India only and experience the speed in Dubai.

Best time to Visit:

Dubai grabs travellers like a flame. The winter months of November to April are ideal for visiting Dubai. The Dubai Shopping Festival attracts a lot of visitors in January and February.

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ID: 102816

Date: May 10, 2021

Bringing interviews to life

Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American retired broadcast journalist, author, and television personality.[1][2] Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, Walters appeared as the host of numerous television programs, including Today, The View, 20/20, and the ABC Evening News. Walters was a working journalist from 1951 until 2015.

Walters began her career on The Today Show in the early 1960s as a writer and segment producer of women's interest stories. Her popularity with viewers resulted in Walters receiving more airtime, and in 1974, she became co-host of the program, the first woman to hold such a title on an American news program. In 1976, she continued to be a pioneer for women in broadcasting by becoming the first female co-anchor of a network evening news program, alongside Harry Reasoner on the ABC Evening News. From 1979 to 2004, Walters worked as a producer and co-host on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20. She also became known for an annual special aired on ABC, Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People

Walters created, produced, and co-hosted the ABC daytime talk show The View in 1997, on which she appeared until her retirement in 2014. Thereafter, she continued to host a number of special reports for 20/20 as well as documentary series for Investigation Discovery. Her final on-air appearance for ABC News was in 2015.

Walters was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1989, and in 2007 received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2000, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

1- https://youtu.be/xQR5BzN4EKg?list=PLjoP5WBpAeS4do6w31o-PsTMnTlbybSa_

Lucille Ball & Barbara Walters: An Interview of a Life Time 

The first interview was with Lucille Ball, the interview style was friendly. First Barbara started the interview with a very nice biography about her personal life and her working experience.

In the interview Barbra was clever in her selection of questions she used some deep personal questions. She used some smart questions; she used a friendly way of interviewing her guest.

Barbara Walters sits down with Lucy and Gary Morton. Barbara Walters asks the questions Lucy steered away from up until this point of her career on TV (post-I Love Lucy) Some say Lucy was uncomfortable with discussing her past life with her current husband, as she wanted to respect the present joys they had in their successful marriage, and giving it its own identity-It's definitely interesting to see Lucy a little stern with Barbara about her first marriage and tells the truth of how it was, and why it didn’t work. Barbara is wonderful and friendly but asks those good questions you have always wanted to know.

2- https://youtu.be/SZHc3zmtYdw?list=PLjoP5WBpAeS4do6w31o-PsTMnTlbybSa_

Barbara Walters Interview with Clint Eastwood 1982

The second interview was with Clint Eastwood, the interview style was friendly. First Barbara started the interview with a very nice biography about his personal life and his working experience.

Clint Eastwood did his best to throw Barbara Walters off of her interview game by flirting with her. It worked. She knew how to ask tough questions and get key information from her interview subjects. Walters sat down with Eastwood for 20/20 in 1982, discussing the rugged star's acting methods and romances at the height of his career and Walters was so charmed by the famously.

I think Clint was very comfortable in the interview while Barbra was uncomfortable for some emotional reasons.

 3- https://youtu.be/E499RlpyOEk?list=PLjoP5WBpAeS4do6w31o-PsTMnTlbybSa_

Sandra Bullock interview in Barbara Walters Special 2010

The third interview was with Sandra Bullock, the interview style was friendly. First Barbara started the interview as usual with a very nice biography about her personal life and her working experience.

Barbara Walters falls into the classic trap of letting Sandra's credibility as an actress begin with Blind Side, and according to Walters, it seems that a credible actress must be a "serious artist", whereas Sandra's credibility as a comedienne was already firmly established long before Blind Side arrived, and she was already a credible actress, because a great comedienne is of course a great artist, and that's about as "serious" as it needs to get

Both of them were feeling comfortable, as the interview was friendly and full of laughs and jokes.

4- https://youtu.be/NRz--1LstNc?list=PLjoP5WBpAeS4do6w31o-PsTMnTlbybSa_

Ronald Reagan interviewed by Barbara Walters on 20/20

The fourth interview was with the American president Ronald Reagan who looked very quiet and peaceful showing his respect and welcome to the US audience, the interview style was very formal due to his position as a president but the environment was very friendly.

Barbara Walters hosts this warm personality study of President Ronald Reagan, which features Reagan working on and touring his California ranch, the type of questions were mostly friendly about his interests, his sanctuary and his personal life.

Reagan was very cheerful that he made Barbra feel comfortable.

 5- https://youtu.be/gF_-KGBexLk?list=PLjoP5WBpAeS4do6w31o-PsTMnTlbybSa_

Barbara Walters Interviews Johnny Carson in 1984 

The fifth interview was with Johnny Carson, the style of the interview was formal and friendly because Carson was very friendly.

He seems to put so much effort into each expression. She was an amazing interviewer. I mean, just look at what she got him to reveal here (and Carson was about as tight lipped about personal matters as they get). Barbara has a way of looking a guest in the eye and speaking with them that gives them the freedom to reveal and communicate intimacies, as opposed to how they might with your cookie-cutter "sensational" interviewer.

I think that Carson was not feeling comfortable in some parts of the interview.

Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American television and radio host, whose awards included two Peabodys, an Emmy and ten Cable ACE Awards. He hosted over 50,000 interviews.

King was a radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s, and gained prominence in 1978 as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN. King hosted Larry King Now from 2012 to 2020, which aired on Hulu, Ora TV, and RT America. He hosted Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political talk show, on the same three channels from 2013 to 2020. King also appeared in television series and films, usually playing himself.

1- https://youtu.be/TNnCN0BwUww

 Interview: Larry King Interviews Donald Trump on Larry King Now, on October 4, 2013

The first interview was with Donald Trump, the interview style was formal. First King started the interview with a very brief introduction about him.

In the interview Larry was clever in his selection of questions he used some deep political questions. He was very smart in selecting the questions; he used a friendly way of interviewing his guest.

In the interview, Larry covered most of the US problems and how Trump is going to face them the most important part was when Trump was just trying to get through this whole time is his country is weak because they put their nose in other countries business they fund other countries they walk on them. The peace treaty that was signed years ago was probably misinterpreted by polotitions today.

Larry is wonderful and friendly but asks those good questions you have always wanted to know.

2- https://youtu.be/YNSoOM4Nq6g

 Larry king interview Vladimir Putin

The second interview was with the Russian BM president Vladimir Putin, the interview style was Formal. First Larry started the interview with warm greetings and went directly into questions.

 Larry asked Putin several questions almost he covered most of the important worldwide issues from north Korea to Iran to the relations between America and Russia even he asked him about some internal Russian problems.

Larry was very smart and professional in choosing his questions also Putin was a very quiet person and smart in answering all the questions.

I think the interview was uncomfortable for both of them.

3- https://youtu.be/53uC0A4il8k

 Larry King / Natalie Portman on Late Night (1994) 

The third interview was with Natalie Portman, the interview style was very friendly. First Larry started the interview as usual with a warm welcome.


Natalie was such an intelligent young woman. She's already so aware of social dynamics at age 13. Notice how she laughs to make others feel comfortable and well received, and not just laughing because a joke is funny. Both of them were feeling comfortable, as the interview was friendly and full of laughs and jokes.

The interview was very comfortable for all of them that the audience can`t stop laughing at her.

 4- https://youtu.be/Gu0mypIa-rk

 Monica Lewinsky on Larry King Live

The fourth interview was with Monica Lewinsky who looked very quiet and peaceful showing, the interview style was very friendly.

I really like how Larry handled this interview. He did not grill or berate her. He asked good questions and let her explain herself. Monica very obviously has a good mind. However, like many of us, she made foolish choices in her youth. She is not the only, not the first, and not the last to be charmed by a predator and overawed by the trappings of power. She is so brave and so beautiful even though she has been through hell at this point. Larry was very professional in this interview.

Monika was very comfortable in answering all these questions.

 5- https://youtu.be/u_29DHdH_ig

 Stan Lee Discusses his Career, Movie Cameos & Bonding with Marvel Actors

The fifth interview was with Stan Lee, the style of the interview was formal and friendly because Lee was very friendly.

Marvel icon, Stan Lee, sits down with Larry for a rare, in-depth interview at Lee’s Beverly Hills office to discuss everything from his big new ‘X-Men’ cameo to the new Chinese super hero he is creating.

I absolutely love how this interview takes place between two old timers who probably grew up in the same era. Stan doesn't even care about the money, he's just extremely glad so many people are connecting with the characters he helped create! In every interview, he makes sure to thank the artists.

The choose of questions was very smart from Larry. He seems to put so much effort into each expression. She was an amazing interviewer.

I think that Carson was not feeling comfortable in some parts of the interview.

Evaluation

What I have learnt from both the interviewers was the way you host someone, the type of questions you can ask and when, also how to change the interview into a friendly interview.

The way you look at your guest and the body language you use to make him feel comfortable

For Barbra I like the way she is introducing her guest and the warm up she makes at the beginning of each interview.

And for Larry he is very professional in starting and involving his guest into the interview I like him the most.

Both of them are considered two of the greatest interviewers in the world they are called as softball interviewers.

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Listed: Joseph Allred

Photo Credit: Susanna Bolle

Joseph Allred grew up in Tennessee and currently lives in Boston, where he’s found good company with acoustic musicians such as Glenn Jones and Rob Noyes. Like them, he makes music that can easily be tagged as American Primitive guitar, a category that Dusted’s Bill Meyer invoked in a 2019 review of two Allred cassettes that were issued on the Garden Portal label: “Of all the musicians who convened in Takoma Park, MD last year to attend The 1000 Incarnations of the Rose festival, Joseph Allred hews closest to American Primitive guitar’s mystical spirit.”

But Allred has also made music that has little to do with that approach, and is not even played on acoustic guitar. A quick survey of the seven vinyl albums and virtual basketful of tapes and downloads that Allred has released on Feeding Tube, Garden Portal, Melliphonic, and Scissor Tail Records since 2013 will turn up songs played on piano and harmonium, banjo instrumentals, and sound collages made from cell phone recordings as well as sonically rich and emotionally commanding acoustic guitar soli. Meyer also reviewed Allred’s newest release, Michael, out on Feeding Tube, noting that “his grasp of the essence of American Primitive guitar, which is that music is not just an idiosyncratic reordering of certain influences… that are played on a steel-stringed acoustic guitar, but an articulation of one person’s uneasy relationship to the wider world.”

Mike Gangloff – “The Other Side of Catawba”

Ten Years Gone : A Tribute to Jack Rose by Mike Gangloff

This song was Mike’s contribution to Buck Curran’s 10 Years Gone tribute to Jack Rose that came out last year. In addition to being a moving tribute to his friend and musical co-conspirator, it points to the mystical, dirge-y side of the Appalachian fiddle tradition that I’m particularly fond of, evoking more than a bit the keening wail of graveside bagpipes.

Powers/Rolin Duo — St

St by Powers / Rolin Duo

A lovely ecstatic drone folk album from these lynchpins of the Columbus, OH cat-instagramming scene. Shimmery, rumbly, at once earth-planted and heaven-turned. 12-string guitar paints color washes like the album’s watercolor sun-scape cover and hammered dulcimer fills to the brim with echo, sometimes sounding on the verge of being blown apart by its own reverberation. It’s been providing a much-needed meditation and catharsis lately.

Ostad Elahi — The Sacred Lute: The Art of Ostad Elahi

Nur Ali Elahi was a Kurdish musician, mystic, jurist, and philosopher born in Iran to the Yarsani religious leader Hajj Nematollah. Despite showing a prodigious talent for the tanbur and being recognized as a master musician at an early age, he never played music in a professional performance setting, preferring to use the instrument, which accompanied him throughout his life, as part of a personal spiritual practice. The tanbur has an airy, ephemeral sound often described as dry or even ascetic, but it uses a rolling right hand technique that creates seemingly unending hypnotic swirls of notes.

Buck Gooter — Finer Thorns

Finer Thorns by Buck Gooter

I met Billy Brett and Terry Turtle about 10 years ago when the band I used to play in shared a spot with Buck Gooter on the lineup of a Harrisonburg, VA basement show. I thought of Suicide and Big Black with some primal Ramones-tinted sludge seeping through the cracks, but it was ultimately something uniquely weird in the best possible way. I didn’t get to know Terry as well as I wish I could’ve before he died last December, leaving Finer Thorns as his last album, but he was a special person and a true outsider art savant. I wish Billy the best as he carries the Buck Gooter flag forward on his own.

Stanley Brothers — The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers

My dad sang in a gospel quartet and I used to poke fun a bit by asking if it hurt his feelings that most of the gigs they got were at funerals. Maybe because I’ve experienced a lot of loss in the last decade or so I understand the special place gospel music has around death for some of us, but I think it can call us to start building a heaven on earth just as it imagines a place where our departed friends and lovers watch over and wait for us. These recordings made between 1949-52 are some of the finest gospel and bluegrass to be found and have been my medicine for homesickness and world-weariness.

Arvo Pärt — Für Alina

I did a transcription of this piano solo for a tape that came out on Michael Potter’s Garden Portal label two years ago and found my first experience with transcription deeply rewarding. Für Alina is a quiet, introspective piece, arranged to slowly unfold and then fold back up and consisting of two voices that move together against an occasionally sounding pedal tone. When I arranged it for guitar, one of the alterations I needed to make is that I put the two voices in the same octave, whereas on the piano they’re played an octave apart. Pärt intended the dedication to “Alina” as a consolation to a mother who had recently been separated from her daughter, so distance is a theme of the piece, but I found it especially poignant that the tension between the two voices seems much more pronounced when they’re put closer together.

Julian Bream — Dances of Dowland

The recently departed Julian Bream was a giant of classical guitar but his anachronistic lute playing technique and use of an instrument with some modern amenities earned him the ire of the more authenticity-minded lutenist community (apparently a fairly ornery bunch). I don’t recommend caring too much about the difference between the right hands of a classical guitarist and a dedicated lutenist, and I still love this album of Dowland renditions for the lute. Bream is a particularly good candidate to bring out the drama and flamboyance that can be extracted from the music, and it’s always a treat to hear the joy and mastery he brought with him to whatever era or instrument he happened to be playing.

Popol Vuh — Spirit of Peace

Music can be weaponized and used to challenge oppressive structures in overt and destructive ways, but in the hands of those like Florian Fricke, it creates spaces for self-transcendence and communion with the Divine, which builds the foundation necessary for successfully transfiguring those structures or building new ones. It allows us to enlighten and empty ourselves, to become conduits for Divinity and activate it in the world. Like much of Popol Vuh’s music, Spirit of Peace speaks from soul to soul.

Alan Sparhawk — Solo Guitar

I’ve been experimenting with an electric guitar a little after having gone two years or so without plugging in at all and using some of that time to think about what the electric guitar excels at or might be uniquely capable of. Alan Sparhawk’s Solo Guitar came out the year after he had a well-documented breakdown that led to the cancelling of a 2005 Low tour and an eventual hospitalization, and this album stands out to me as a testament to how bleak and alienated the electric guitar can sound. It’s also a reminder of what made me put the electric guitar down for so long to begin with. It’s a beautiful album, but sometimes I can’t help but hear audio renderings of hellscapes Alan must have been fighting through.

Dorothee Soelle — The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance

Dorothee Soelle was a German Protestant theologian who came of age against the shadow of Germany’s horrific deeds during World War II. She spent her professional career as an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War and Cold War arms race, patriarchal renderings of God, and a perversion of Christianity she called “Christofascism.” The Silent Cry stands as one of her most important and widely read works. She imagines an imminent, politically engaged mysticism, one equally at odds with the violent, patriarchal exploitation enacted by capitalism, and other-worldly mysticisms that refuse social analysis.

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Quarantine Tag Game

I know I'm kinda too late for this, I know! But the thing is my mental health had been so awful the past few days that I simply couldn't do this before, even tho I wanted to, but today, well, I felt better, I had a much better day compared to the other days and I felt I'm finally able to do these tag games I've been tagged.

Big thank you to @hazzabeeforlou and @sunshineandthemoonlight for tagging me.💙

Are you staying home from work/school?

Well actually I finished my school two years ago, and I don't have a job unfortunately, so, no.

Who is at home with you?

My family, including my parents and younger sis

Are you a homebody?

Yup! Absolutely!

Any events you were looking forward to that got cancelled?

No, nothing but harry and louis' shows. Even tho I live in iran and none of the boys do shows here (it's not even legal, like even if they wanted to, I don't think the Gov would let them!) I was still so excited for louis' tour and it was, and it is still so upsetting that it unfortunately got postponed.

What movies have you watched recently?

I recently watched two animated movies, spies in disguise and big bad fox and other tales, they're such light funny things to watch, enjoyed them both very much, the latter was so cute and melted my heart.

What are you doing for self care?

Spending a great part of my day in the back yard, far away from where my always-fighting parents are, just chilling, trying to enjoy the last chilly days, I live in south of iran so soon it'll be boiling hot.😩

And listening to lots of music.

What shows are you watching?

I'm watching Victoria and Chernobyl with my sister, rewatching Merlin on my own. Also I'm planning to watch Twin Peaks soon, heard a lot of good things about it, but the fact that Louis referenced this show on his walls mv is also an important motivation.

What music have you been listening to?

Well obviously I'm streaming walls, I listen to my favourite Harry's track too, I simply can't live without fine line the track, it's a sad song obviously but has somehow become my emotional support.

louis' playlist is so good too, I found so many good bands and artist through it. Also 5sos' new album.

What books are you reading?

I've just started it's ok if you're not ok, it's a book about grief, and also am trying to start Frankenstein, a classic I wanted to read for ages!

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Virtual Museums in the Time of COVID-19

In these awful times, everyone is looking for something to keep themselves busy during self-isolation. The “virtual museum” has been offered as one from of edutainment, a way to enrich the mind and pass time when you become sick of binge-watching shows and movies.

Museums have been working to digitize collections and increase accessibility for a while now, designing them to be educational tools or a way for people to access the museum even if they can’t physically visit. Right now, that means all of us, so let’s become armchair museologists, exploring foreign museums from the comfort of our own homes.

The Book

The Pergamonmuseum in Berlin can be found on many lists of online exhibits to visit, and by happy chance I had only just reread a personal favorite that would fit perfectly with the ancient collections in the museum.

Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner is an epic journey told from the point of view of the runaway slave Kamet and the soldier Costis sent to save him as they escape through the fictional Mede Empire, culturally very like ancient Babylon. The book is the most recent in the series Queen’s Thief, following a thief who becomes king of the fictional world Attolia, heavily inspired by classical Greece. 

Ever since I visited the Pergamonmuseum years ago, I will admit that I think of their displays every time I read this book. But how does the virtual experience compare to the physical?

Attolia and the Mede Empire

Historical Greece and Anatolia

  The Museum

Run through Google Arts and Culture, the virtual Pergamonmuseum has a simple design and intuitive interactive layout. You are greeted first with a header image of the famous Ishtar gate and a few happily browsing visitors.

Click here to follow along

  Underneath is a small introductory text, much like the type that would stand before the entrance to an exhibit. You can choose to read more of it by clicking a button, or you can continue scrolling down to the “stories” or exhibits, much like when a visitor chooses to stroll past the text panels. Scroll a bit further and you can see all 1,591 digitized objects, either organized by topics or pictured individually. At the very bottom is access to a “museum view,” a 360 scan of a room.

At any point you can, of course, share your experience on the social media platform of your choice.

The Pergamonmuseum actually houses three smaller museums, the Classical collections, the Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Museum of Islamic Art. I’m going to focus on the first two, as they would cover the cultures in Turner’s books.

The Virtual Tour

“Monumental: Highlights in the Pergamonmuseum” is the first exhibit, an overarching tour of the museum’s scope by focusing on a few of the most impressive parts of their collections – reconstructed monuments. These pieces are large enough to walk past or through in a way that lets the visitor truly experience the scale and aesthetics of these ancient cultures.

But how do these very large displays translate to a digital format?

Pergamon Altar is the highlight of the virtual museum. Most of the exhibits focus on it, using the high-quality photos and videos taken in anticipation of the exhibit closing for renovations. Google used a camera to create a 360 experience of the room, which the first exhibit uses to “walk” the visitor through the room, zooming in on details and providing context through pop up text. If you want to explore it yourself, you can take control of the view much as you would Google Streetview.

This high tech interactive gives a life-size sense of scale, allowing you to feel as if you are looking up at the tall steps and large friezes. The sculptures of gods, goddesses, and monsters are marvels of artistic talent, robust and detailed in a way that reminds me of a pivotal scene from the first book, The Thief, when Eugenides finds a room where his gods sit as still as statues, a held breath away from speaking.

“Moving” into the Museum of the Ancient Near East, the online exhibit brings the visitor to a more vibrantly colored reconstruction – the blue and yellow bricks of the Ishtar gate and processional way. The first “slide” has a video pop up with a video about the history of the gate and the city of Babylon. When I accessed the site, the full screen option wouldn’t work. Technological glitches are an interesting issue to consider in accessing the virtual museum. What if certain sections crash and interfere with the narrative of the exhibit?

  Despite the small screen, the video recreated the experience of an audio guide. The narrators create a word picture of the gate while you look at pictures of it. They explain the meanings behind the symbols and emphasized that any visitor Nebuchanezzer’s Babylon would have understood at a glance. The symbolism of gods and goddesses are a reminder of a time when the pantheon of gods lived vividly in people lives as images and statues everywhere, just as in the classical world Turner builds in her series. These books feature gods and goddesses that step out of stories and into the plot to help or hinder her main characters. In Thick As Thieves, she drew from the mythology of the Ancient Near East and the Epic of Gilgamesh to create the heroes Immakuk and Ennikar that interfere throughout the plot.

The video and the close up photos afterwards show the details in the relief carvings of lions, a symbol of Ishtar, which made me realize that the seemingly ridiculous scene in the book when Kamet and Costis hide from soldiers in the den of a lioness might have actually been a hint that this ferocious goddess was another force protecting them.

Having been to this display in the actual museum, the experience is rather awe-inspiring. To walk through this massive gate and along a very long corridor, all lined with ancient tiles and then to find out that this was only a small portion of the entire structure is boggling. Especially impressive is to imagine the time conservators spent piecing together this mammoth puzzle. In the virtual museum, however, the scale of the piece isn’t as emphasized as the detail work. After some digging, I did find a 3D image of the gate on the page for the Berlin Museum Island page.

  The Collections

Below the exhibits are thumbnails for all 1,591 objects that can be explored digitally. As a visitor, you can go through collections organizing the objects by cultural source (i.e. Iraq, Iran, Syria) or by theme (water, textiles, and lions, oh my!).  My eye was drawn to the clay tablets. In Thick As Thieves, Kamet recites from the tablets of the epic of Immakuk and Ennikar. In ancient Mesopotamia, letters and important documents were written in cuneiform on clay. The ones highlighted at the virtual Pergamonmuseum were inventories of goods and horses or letters from kings, rather than poetry, unfortunately.

Collection of Clay Tablets

  You can also go through all of the objects, choosing to organize them by viewer popularity, by time in an easily navigated timeline, or, bizarrely enough, by color. This allows the visitor to engage with the objects in a way quite unlike a usual museum visit. You view the objects in sometimes surprising combinations that cross cultural lines and the usual organizational categories.

I chose to see all chocolate brown objects together, which yielded a combination of detailed textiles and clay imprints from cylindrical signets. They are two very different mediums from different centuries, but you can see some similarities in the symmetry and angles on the textiles and carvings.

  The details for the objects are, however, limited. Other than names and accession numbers, some objects didn’t have any other information while others had a paragraph or two. I wonder if the objects were chosen by the practicality that they were the best photographed. So, the important collections for a virtual museum become the ones that are the most visual.

  Thoughts

The virtual museum was certainly an entertaining way to pass the time here in quarantine. The overall experience became meditative in the way walking through a museum becomes very quiet and calm, although I found after a while the same reading fatigue as hunching to look at text panels in person.

Trying to view the entirety of a museum through my laptop computer screen, the different cultures and topics encompassed within it began to blur together. Unlike a physical museum, where a visitor moves through discretely different rooms organized geographically or by clearly defined topic at a walking pace that allows the mind to shift gears, the virtual museum has a speed to it. You click through topics and it’s easy to switch between topics or go back to check. You can draw lines between displays that might otherwise be at other ends of the museum building.

These blurring of lines might not be what the website designers intended, as the exhibits are more neatly outlined, but the experience certainly fits with the world of the Queen’s Thief series, which is, after all, not a true historical fiction. Megan Whalen Turner drew from classical Greek, Near East, and other Mediterranean cultures to create her world, but she pulled details from several different centuries to do so. Viewing the virtual museum, where it is easier to hop across timelines, did help me understand the setting for the books better, and gave me an aesthetic language for imagining the Mede Empire.

  Further Reading

Interview with Megan Whalen Turner

Map of the world of Queen’s Thief

Virtual Pergamonmuseum

Pergamonmuseum website

The Queen’s Thief Series

Other Virtual Museums

  New in #QuarantineLife I want to explore #VirtualMuseums with the #Pergamonmuseum #Berlin #ClosedButOpen #SMBforHome #StayHome #HowDoYouMuseum #queensthief #attolia #ThickAsThieves #ReturnOftheThief #worldbookday Virtual Museums in the Time of COVID-19 In these awful times, everyone is looking for something to keep themselves busy during self-isolation.

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“Seljuk Station” is a screenplay written by Bahram Beyzai, the most famous literary figure in Modern iran, in 2000. You can read the plot summary and review of Seljuk Station by Ebrahim Barzegar. 

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AC Odyssey's Modern Day AU Headcanons- Kassandra Edition

With everything happening lately I thought it would be fun to create a list of headcanons I've come up with!

So for the sake of keeping everything easier to follow, everyone lives in Athens and the general AC lore and history is not entirely intact.

Warning: Very Long Post!

Kassandra

Born in Modern-day Sparta, she spent most of her youth growing up resenting the city's still highly conservative mindset

Is a full-on Lesbian

Favorite Literary Master is Sapphos of Lesbos

Spent her early to late 20s in the Greek Military, eventually working as a mercenary before being honorably discharged

Highly athletic, with a naturally above average strong physice

Head Curator for the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, and is heavily regarded in her field across Greece

Is also renowned for her unusually vast knowledge of Ancient Greece (some say it's as though she's lived through it...but that's impossible)

Can trace her ancestry to King Leonidas himself

Unless working out (which is quite often) Kass ALWAYS makes sure her attire is perfectly tailored and pressed-almost always in a suit of some sort

Favorite designer is Giorgio Armani

Favorite music include groups like Florence and the Machine and Within Temptation, along with Classical

Doesn't always admit it, but also loves Janelle Monae

Is an absolute Film Fan

There always seems to be an eagle somewhere close by her...but that's just coincidence

Many find her just as beautiful as she is intimidating, which makes a lot of people nervous around her

Doesn't talk about her childhood, but she sometimes suffers from night terrors and boughts of loneliness

Adores children and loves to give young ones a tour around the museum

Is a big advocate for historical preservation and conservation

No one knows where her wealth comes from, but Kass lives fairly comfortably yet refuses to ever put it on display (aside from her suits)

Known for having voracious sexual exploits, Kassandra is pretty much the definition of BDE in the WLW community

Despite this, however, Kass considers all her female relations to be meaningful ones

Is still friends with a lot of former GFs and they all gets drinks together as a group often

Will usually get sea sick when sailing with Barnabas

Barnabas

Spent most his life on the sea as a sailor

Kassandra considers him one of her best friends

Although semi retired now, he still partakes on new "voyages" that comes his way

Fascinated by Ancient Greek naval history, Barnabas has dedicated his off time to restoring one of the most well-known ships of the Aegeon Sea-The Adrestia

Also owns what is probably Athen's best Seafood Shack-despite not being next to the sea (Kass loves hanging out here on a lazy day)

Herodotus

Head Historian for the National Archaeological Museum

Is Kassandra's mentor, and sort of Father Figure

Is fascinated by Kassandra's family history

An introvert at heart, which Kass fully appreciates because the 2 of them can work together in complete silence for long periods of time and still enjoy each other's company

Has a surprisingly large arsenal of Dad jokes

Myrrine

Divorced from her husband Nikolaos long ago after realizing how awful he was to her children

Never remarried (and has no desire to) but does have a female partner

Works as a Politician in Sparta but visits Athens often to see her children

Has strong relationships with both Kassandra and Alexios

Always tries and sets her kids up with suitors

An absolute MILF! (And knows it)

Most always calm and collected but if you insult her children she WILL punch you in the nose!

Alexios

Looks up to Kassandra like crazy (and isn't afraid to admit it)

Fell in with some bad people in his younger years and regrets it greatly

With the help and love from his mom and sister was able to create a better life for himself

Is making up for his past mistakes and is loving his life now

Is one of Athens most demanded Physical Trainers

An utter sweatheart and full-on Feminist Ally (seriously, he's all for Equality)

Odessa

Kassandra's 2nd serious girlfriend (although they've had their fair share of one night stands since breaking up)

Works as a Literary Professor at the Mediterranean College of Athens-specifically in Ancient Greek Literature

Often has Kassandra visit as a Guest Speaker for her lectures

ALL the young WLW completely SWOON over Kassandra whenever she visits

May be tough on her students but will fight anyone who gives them a hard time

Has to mention she is a descendant of Odysseus at least once every lecture

Roxana

Was in the military with Kassandra where her and Kass dated for most their time as comrades, but grew apart after Kass left

Works as a Combat Trainer for the Military in Athens

She may be tiny, but she is the only one that can come close to fighting Kassandra and win

ADORES Janelle Monae

Although no longer together, her and Kass have a mutual respect and platonic love for each other

Was introduced to Kyra by Kassandra a couple of years ago-and they've been together since

Kyra

Like Kassandra, also suffered during her childhood (and does not talk about it)

Did a stint in the Peace Core as a young adult

Now is an Activist for Civil Rights causes and displaced Refugees - which Kass helps with when she can

Was with Kassandra for a few years and even planned on proposing

But due to her activism and the demands of Kass's job, they eventually split

Remain good friends and sometimes travel to Mykonos together to poke fun at American Tourists

Was introduced by Kass to Roxana a couple years ago and the 2 have been inseparable since

Daphne

A zoologist who met Kassandra while aiding in an exhibit about Greek animals and their cultural influence

While working together her and Kass had a series of one night stints

Although very enamoured with each other, they couldn't be together because Daphne had to leave for a biological expedition to the Arctic soon after her business with the museum finished

Her and Kass remain as penpals and stays in contact with each other whenever possible

Aspasia

A prominent politician in Athens, and is probably considered one of the most powerful women in Greece

Often visits the museum where her and Kassandra have long varied conversations

Even though they both are aware of the sexual tension between them neither ever act on it as they both have titles they must consider

Despite seeming cold and calculating all the time, all she wants is what's best for Greece

Nut Tacos (yea I'm adding him too)

Recently moved to Athens with his sister Neema from Iran

Started working at the museum to aide in their Persian War exhibit

Aid as in Assistant to Kassandra while she does all the work herself and tries everything to avoid him

Has a massive crush on our favorite Misthios

Tried to make several passes at Kass but was verbally Yeeted by her

Has no idea that his sister Neema is also eying Kassandra

Neema

Originally of Persian descent, her and her brother Natakas moved to Athens from Iran

Ancient Persian Historian sent to collaborate w/Kass

Neema and Kassandra hit it off almost immediately, and began dating soon after. It did not take long for them to completely fall in love with each other

All their friends are super supportive of their relationship, and the old Girlfriends even help Kassandra propose-only to find Neema planned on doing the same thing!

Kassandra and Neema end up marrying on Naxos surrounded by friends and family (with Barnabas officiating) and the two women enjoy a life of love and fulfilment together 💜

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Attn NYC: @FilmLinc's FREE Summer 50th Mixtape: Free Double Features is awesome. 📽️🎞️🍿

FREE DOUBLE FEATURES

June 27 – Cléo from 5 to 7 (6pm) and The Portrait of a Lady (9pm) July 11 – Two English Girls (6pm) and Mulholland Dr. (8:45pm) July 18 – Come Drink with Me (6pm) and The Assassin (8pm) July 25 – The Leopard (6pm) and Happy as Lazzaro (9:30pm) August 1 – Stalker (6pm) and High Life (9:15pm) August 8 – School Daze (6pm) and Sorry to Bother You (8:30pm) August 15 – Nocturama (6pm) and Burning (8:45pm) August 22 – demonlover (6pm) and Elle (8:45pm) August 29 – Velvet Goldmine (6pm) and Her Smell (8:30pm) September 5 – Three Times (6pm) and Moonlight (8:30pm) September 11 – Audience Choice! (Voting to launch June 27.)

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SUMMER 2019 NEW RELEASES

June 21

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, USA, 2019, 119m With the peerless style and rich perspective on Black America she brought to such acclaimed novels as Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison has earned a reputation as one America’s greatest living writers. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is an artful and intimate documentary about Morrison’s life and work—from her working class upbringing in Lorain, Ohio, and her 1970s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, to the front lines with Angela Davis and her own riverfront writing room—and the countless people she has inspired. Featuring interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, Hilton Als, Fran Lebowitz, and Morrison herself. A Magnolia Pictures release.

Filmmaker in person opening weekend!

June 28

The Plagiarists Peter Parlow, USA, 2019, 76m Co-written by experimental filmmakers James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir, The Plagiarists is at once a hilarious send-up of low-budget American indie filmmaking and a probing inquiry into race, relationships, and the social uncanny. A young novelist (Lucy Kaminsky) and her cinematographer boyfriend (Eamon Monaghan) are waylaid by a snowstorm on their way to visit a friend in upstate New York and are taken in by the kindly yet enigmatic Clip (Michael “Clip” Payne of Parliament Funkadelic), who puts them up for the night. But an accidental discovery months later recasts in an unnerving light what had seemed like an agreeable evening, stoking resentments both latent and not-so-latent. Exhilaratingly intelligent and distinctively shot on a vintage TV-news camera, The Plagiarists is a work whose provocations are inseparable from its pleasures. A 2019 New Directors/New Films selection. A KimStim release.

Filmmakers in person opening weekend!

July 12

Rojo Benjamín Naishtat, Argentina/Brazil/France/Netherlands/Germany/Belgium/Switzerland, 2018, 109m English and Spanish with English subtitles In mid-’70s Argentina, at the height of that country’s infamous Dirty War, Claudio (Darío Grandinetti) is a well-heeled, cool-headed lawyer living with his wife and teenage daughter in a comfortable provincial suburb. When an innocuous dinner date ends in a startling altercation with a stranger, Claudio’s apparently placid lifestyle is disrupted, and fault lines begin to appear in the frictionless surface of his professional and domestic existence. What follows is a brooding, warm-hued fugue, where political calculations, economic stratagems, and tenuous social mores are played out with slow-burning ferocity against a harmonic bassline of barely repressed indignation and simmering paranoia. A Distrib Films release.

August 2

La Flor Mariano Llinás, Argentina, 2018, 803m (screening in 4 parts) A decade in the making, Mariano Llinás’s follow-up to his 2008 cult classic Extraordinary Stories is an unrepeatable labor of love and madness that redefines the concept of binge-viewing. The director himself appears at the start to preview the six disparate episodes that await, each starring the same four remarkable actresses: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, and Laura Paredes. Overflowing with nested subplots and whiplash digressions, La Flor shape-shifts from a B-movie to a musical to a spy thriller to a category-defying metafiction—all of them without endings—to a remake of a very well-known French classic and, finally, to an enigmatic period piece that lacks a beginning (granted, all notions of beginnings and endings become fuzzy after 14 hours). An adventure in scale and duration, La Flor is a marvelously entertaining exploration of the possibilities of fiction that lands somewhere close to its outer limits. An NYFF56 selection. A Grasshopper Film release.

Filmmaker in person opening weekend!

Part 1: 203m / Part 2: 188m / Part 3: 205m / Part 4: 207m

Parts 1 & 2 screen August 2-8 and parts 3 & 4 screen August 9-15; check filmlinc.org for more details.

Piranhas / La paranza dei bambini Claudio Giovannesi, Italy, 2019, 112m Italian with English subtitles The latest from Claudio Giovannesi (Fiore) is this singular coming-of-age story that won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival. Newcomer Francesco Di Napoli stars as 15-year-old Nicola, who leads a pack of cocksure hellions captivated by the lifestyle of the local Camorra as they descend into the violent, paranoid world of Naples’s dominant crime group. Based on the novel by Roberto Saviano, who co-wrote the screenplay and mined similar territory in his devastating Gomorrah, Piranhas is a haunting reflection on doomed adolescence. A 2019 Open Roads selection. A Music Box Films release.

August 16

What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? Roberto Minervini, Italy/USA/France, 2018, 123m Italian-born, American South–based filmmaker Roberto Minervini’s follow-up to his Texas Trilogy is a portrait of African-Americans in New Orleans struggling to maintain their unique cultural identity and to find social justice. Shot in very sharp black and white, the film is focused on Judy, trying to keep her family afloat and save her bar before it’s snapped up by speculators; Ronaldo and Titus, two brothers growing up surrounded by violence and with a father in jail; Kevin, trying to keep the glorious local traditions of the Mardi Gras Indians alive; and the local Black Panthers, trying to stand up against a new, deadly wave of racism. This is a passionately urgent and strangely lyrical film experience. An NYFF56 selection. A KimStim release.

August 23

Genesis Philippe Lesage, Canada, 2018, 130m French with English subtitles Following his autobiographical 2015 narrative debut The Demons, Philippe Lesage continues to chronicle the life of young Felix (Édouard Tremblay-Grenier), now diverging to capture the romantic trials and tribulations of two Quebecois teen siblings. While the charismatic, Salinger-reading Guillaume (Théodore Pellerin) wrestles with his sexual identity at his all-boys boarding school, the more ostensibly grown-up Charlotte (Noée Abita) discovers the casual cruelty of the adult world that awaits her post-graduation. Lesage and his young actors depict the aches of becoming oneself with nuance, honesty, and compassion, and the result is one of the most beautiful coming-of-age stories in years. A 2019 New Directors/New Films selection. A Film Movement release.

August 30

The Load Ognjen Glavonić, Serbia/France/Croatia/Iran/Qatar, 2018, 98m Serbian with English subtitles Ognjen Glavonić’s wintry road movie concerns a truck driver (Leon Lucev) tasked with transporting mysterious cargo across a scorched landscape from Kosovo to Belgrade during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. A companion piece to the director’s 2016 documentary Depth Two, The Load is a work of enveloping atmosphere that puts a politically charged twist on the highway thrillers it recalls: Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear and William Friedkin’s retelling, Sorcerer. The streamlined premise gives way to a slow-dawning reckoning, in which implications of guilt and complicity slowly but surely sink in. A 2019 New Directors/New Films selection. A Grasshopper Film release.

September 6

Say Amen, Somebody George T. Nierenberg, USA, 1982, 101m One of the most acclaimed music documentaries of all time, Say Amen, Somebody is George T. Nierenberg’s exuberant, funny, and deeply moving celebration of 20th-century American gospel music. With unrivaled access to the movement’s luminaries, Thomas Dorsey and Mother Willie Mae Ford Smith, Nierenberg masterfully records their fascinating stories alongside earth-shaking, show-stopping performances by the Barrett Sisters, the O’Neal Twins, and others. As much a fascinating time capsule as it is a peerless concert movie, Say Amen, Somebody returns to Film at Lincoln Center in a gorgeous 4K restoration by Milestone Films, with support from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. An NYFF20 selection. A Milestone Films release.

New releases are organized by Dennis Lim and Florence Almozini.

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May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

 Asian Pacific American as a topic covers vast oceans of identity and information. By definition, an Asian Pacific American is an American (whether born, naturalized, or other) who was born on or has heritage from anywhere on the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Easter Island). These areas cover a wide array of languages, cultures, religions, and ethnicities that have brought countless skills, hopes and dreams to the United States.

 UCF Libraries faculty and staff have (very enthusiastically) suggested 24 books and movies within the library’s collection by or about Asian Pacific Americans. Click the link below to see the full list, descriptions, and catalog links. These, and additional titles, are also on the Featured Bookshelf display on the second (main) floor next to the bank of two elevators.

A Concise History of China by J. A. G. Roberts

In this overarching book, J. A. G. Roberts refers to recent archeological finds--the caches of bronze vessels found at Sanxingdui--and to new documentary reevaluations--the reassessment of Manchu documentation. The first half of the book provides an up-to-date interpretation of China's early and imperial history, while the second half concentrates on the modern period and provides an interpretive account of major developments--the impact of Western imperialism, the rise of Chinese Communism, and the record of the People's Republic of China since 1949.

Suggested by Richard Harrison, Research & Information Services

 A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese confinement in North America by Greg Robinson

Most remarkably, A Tragedy of Democracy is the first book to analyze official policy toward West Coast Japanese Americans within a North American context. Robinson studies confinement on the mainland alongside events in wartime Hawaii, where fears of Japanese Americans justified Army dictatorship, suspension of the Constitution, and the imposition of military tribunals. He similarly reads the treatment of Japanese Americans against Canada's confinement of 22,000 citizens and residents of Japanese ancestry from British Columbia. A Tragedy of Democracy recounts the expulsion of almost 5,000 Japanese from Mexico's Pacific Coast and the poignant story of the Japanese Latin Americans who were kidnapped from their homes and interned in the United States

Suggested by Richard Harrison, Research & Information Services

 An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.

Suggested by Rachel Edford, Teaching & Engagement

 Born Confused by Tanuja Desair Hidier

Seventeen-year-old Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers that she is not Indian enough for the Indians and not American enough for the Americans, as she sees her hypnotically beautiful, manipulative best friend taking possession of both her heritage and the boy she likes.

Suggested by Sara Duff, Acquisitions & Collections

 Cora Cooks Pancit written by Dorina Lazo Gilmore and illustrated by Kristi Valiant

When all her older siblings are away, Cora's mother finally lets her help make pancit, a Filipino noodle dish. Includes recipe for pancit.

Suggested by Cindy Dancel, Research & Information Services

 Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong

Named one of the Los Angeles Times's Best Science Fiction Books in 2007, Dance Dance Revolution is a genre-bending tour de force told from the perspective of the Guide, a former dissident and tour guide of an imagined desert city.

Suggested by Sara Duff, Acquisitions & Collections

 Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He’s a Fractional Persian—half, his mom’s side—and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he’s sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn’t exactly help matters, and trying to explain his medication to his grandparents only makes things harder. Then Darius meets Sohrab, the boy next door, and everything changes. Soon, they’re spending their days together, playing soccer, eating faludeh, and talking for hours on a secret rooftop overlooking the city’s skyline. Sohrab calls him Darioush—the original Persian version of his name—and Darius has never felt more like himself than he does now that he’s Darioush to Sohrab.

Suggested by Peter Spyers-Duran, Cataloging

 Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.

Suggested by Rachel Edford, Teaching & Engagement

 Fa Mulan: the story of a woman warrior by Robert D. San Souci

A retelling of the original Chinese poem in which a brave young girl masquerades as a boy and fights the Tartars in the Khan's army.

Suggested by Peggy Nuhn, Connect Libraries

Front Desk by Kelly Yang

Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed. Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language? It will take all of Mia's courage, kindness, and hard work to get through this year. Will she be able to hold on to her job, help the immigrants and guests, escape Mr. Yao, and go for her dreams?

Suggested by Peter Spyers-Duran, Cataloging

 Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the censored images of Japanese American internment by Dorothea Lange

Censored by the U.S. Army, Dorothea Lange's unseen photographs are the extraordinary photographic record of the Japanese American internment saga. This indelible work of visual and social history confirms Dorothea Lange's stature as one of the twentieth century's greatest American photographers. Presenting 119 images originally censored by the U.S. Army―the majority of which have never been published―Impounded evokes the horror of a community uprooted in the early 1940s and the stark reality of the internment camps. With poignancy and sage insight, nationally known historians Linda Gordon and Gary Okihiro illuminate the saga of Japanese American internment: from life before Executive Order 9066 to the abrupt roundups and the marginal existence in the bleak, sandswept camps.

Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

 John Okada: the life & rediscovered work of the author of No-no boy edited by Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, and Floyd Cheung

No-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and is cast out by his divided community. The novel faced a similar rejection until it was rediscovered and reissued in 1976, becoming a classic of American literature. As a result of Okada's untimely death at age forty-seven, the author's life and other works have remained obscure. This collection offers the first full-length examination of Okada's development as an artist, placing recently discovered writing by Okada alongside essays that reassess his legacy. Meticulously researched biographical details, insight from friends and relatives, and a trove of photographs illuminate Okada's life in Seattle, military service, and careers as a public librarian, technical writer, and ad man. This volume is an essential companion to No-No Boy.

Suggested by Missy Murphey, Research & Information Services

 Little Fires Everywhere: a novel by Celeste Ng

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned -- from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren -- an enigmatic artist and single mother -- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town -- and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides.

Suggested by Sandy Avila, Research & Information Services

 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction—at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful—and completely unforgettable.

Suggested by Peggy Nuhn, Connect Libraries

 Music for Alice by Allen Say

As a girl, Alice loved to dance, but the rhythms of her life offered little opportunity for a foxtrot, let alone a waltz. World War II erupted soon after she was married. Alice and her husband, along with many other Japanese Americans, were forced to leave their homes and report to assembly centers around the country. Undaunted, Alice and her husband learned to make the most of every circumstance, from their stall in the old stockyard in Portland to the decrepit farm in the Oregon desert, with its field of stones. Like a pair of skilled dancers, they sidestepped adversity to land gracefully amid golden opportunity. Together they turned a barren wasteland into a field of endless flowers. Such achievements did not come without effort and sacrifice, though, and Alice often thought her dancing days were long behind her.

Suggested by Peggy Nuhn, Connect Libraries

 No-no Boy by John Okada

No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys." Yamada answered "no" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle. As Ozeki writes, Ichiro’s "obsessive, tormented" voice subverts Japanese postwar "model-minority" stereotypes, showing a fractured community and one man’s "threnody of guilt, rage, and blame as he tries to negotiate his reentry into a shattered world."

Suggested by Missy Murphey, Research & Information Services

 Severance by Ling Ma

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she's had her fill of uncertainty. She's content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. Candace won't be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They're traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?

Suggested by Sara Duff, Acquisitions & Collections

 The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan

Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her best friend and longtime secret crush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life.

Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

 The Chinese Exclusion Act by directed by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu

Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years.

Suggested by Richard Harrison, Research & Information Services

 The Making of Asian America: a history by Erika Lee

The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day. An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life in the United States: sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s; indentured "coolies" who worked alongside African slaves in the Caribbean; and Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and South Asian immigrants who were recruited to work in the United States only to face massive racial discrimination, Asian exclusion laws, and for Japanese Americans, incarceration during World War II. No longer a "despised minority," Asian Americans are now held up as America's "model minorities" in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States.

Suggested by Missy Murphey, Research & Information Services

 The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dance-hall girl to help pay off her mother's mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin plunges into a dark adventure: a mirror world of secrets and superstitions. Eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy Ren also has a secret, a promise he must fulfill to his dead master; to find his master's severed finger and bury it with his body. Ren has forty-nine days to do so, or his master's soul will wander the earth forever. Dazzling and propulsive, The Night Tiger is the coming-of-age of a child and a young woman, each searching for their place in a society that would rather they stay invisible.

Suggested by Sandy Avila, Research & Information Services

 The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo

Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad’s business. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara has to leave her old self behind?

Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

 Thich Nhat Hanh: essential writings by Thicht Than

Zen master, poet, monk and peace advocate, Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who has lived in exile in France for 30 years. Through his writings and retreats he has helped countless people of all religious backgrounds to live mindfully in the present moment, to uproot sources of anger and distrust, and to achieve relationships of love and understanding.

Suggested by Cindy Dancel, Research & Information Services

To the Stars: the autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu by George Takei

This is the autobiography of one of Star Trek's most popular stars, George Takei. It tells of his triumph over adversity and of his huge success, despite an inauspicious start in a wartime US Asian relocation camp. In his lifetime, he has become an actor, a successful businessman, a writer, and a man deeply involved in politics and the democratic process. His story also includes his early days as an actor when he had brushes with greats like Alec Guinness, Burt Lancaster and Bruce Lee, as well as his first meeting with a writer/producer named Gene Roddenberry.

Suggested by Tim Walker, Information Technology & Digital Initiatives

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Iran is a land of surprising contrasts. From snow-capped mountains in winter to its urban and multicultural facet within the historical planet will mesmerize every tourist visiting this land.